09/16/2026
"The origin of your thoughts, observations and dreams is happening right now, in the background of everyday consensus reality. As you become more lucid during the day, you can predict what you're going to think, dream, and do before you go to sleep at night.
Perhaps the only reason nighttime dreams sometimes seems so difficult to understand is that usually do not pay attention to tendencies, vague sensations, hunches, feelings, aches and pains. You notice the Dreaming, only when it gets to the point of unfolding, only when a body sensation already hurts. You probably pay attention to your ideas only when they're almost formulated. The more lucid you become, the more you will note your experiences before they reach the level where they can be clearly felt, thought about, and remembered.
The psychological reason for ignoring the Dreaming is that you learn to separate yourself from these elementary tendencies, sensations, preverbal feelings and thoughts. Thus today you tend to neglect and dissociate from whatever you cannot comprehend with your ordinary mind.
In other words, dreams are difficult to understand not because they're naturally mysterious, but because you've dissociated yourself from your their source. From our developing perspective of lucidity, dreams are the products of Dreaming, just as a tree is the result of a seed in the ground."
Arnold Mindell, Dreaming While Awake